LEGEND has it that the birth of the nation’s motor industry – and mainstay of the Eastern Cape economy for close to 90 years – took place in the world’s automotive powerhouse of the time, the US city of Detroit.

A SPONTANEOUS trip by a young couple from Bloemfontein in search of greener pastures in Port Elizabeth almost 80 years ago paved the way for the descending of a Sesotho family, who has since formed part of the Friendly City’s landscape.